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lord bless
this sermon lord um just the way that
rey has been communicating these last
few weeks gosh
just use it lord in our marriages around
our community in the world
lord we love you we praise you for what
you're doing in jesus name
amen what is the purpose
of marriage you know we've looked at the
power of marriage
the definition of marriage the priority
of marriage even marriage roles
and today we're going to wrap up this
series by understanding
the purpose of marriage what is the
purpose of marriage
well the purpose of marriage is
friendship now i know that's not our
culture but it's
biblical culturally you might have a
good friend who understands you but
you're not attracted to them but another
person really catches your eye
they're good looking but they really
don't understand you they don't get you
at all
and yet which friend is the better
candidate
for a christian marriage listen if you
chase the eye candy to the expense of
somebody who understands you
you're headed for trouble that doesn't
mean you got to marry some unattractive
friend but what i'm
saying is that friendship builds
a much stronger marriage than just good
looks
at one time i am planning a wedding for
a young couple and the bride asked
if her maid of honor could be a man
the bride argued well the maid of honor
is supposed to be your best friend so
why does that have to be a woman when my
best friend's a man
now biblically there's nothing in the
scriptures that requires the maid of
honor to be a woman you know god's
silent on wedding party details he
doesn't care you know if you've got some
big
you know uh taco truck at your wedding
and such is
that that's not germane to how god leads
but if this woman wants a guy to stand
next to her and
you know hold her bridal bouquet fix the
train on her wedding dress and all that
well there's really
no problem with that from a christian
point of view
however if i were the groom
i would have a serious problem with her
understanding of marriage
because the groom is anything but her
best friend
maybe he's a sex object maybe he's a
meal ticket maybe maybe he's just a
status symbol
i mean he's something but he ain't the
right thing because his fiancee
just valued another guy as her best
friend in the old testament language
the hebrew it describes your spouse as
your covenant partner
your soul mate you know when adam saw
his wife eve what did he say
did he say what a babe no he didn't
adam said this at last is bone of my
bones
and flesh of my flesh this is a oneness
friends
that is not found first in a sex act but
first
in friendship what is friendship well
david gives us clues in psalm 41 9.
david says even my close friend someone
i trusted
one who shared my bread has turned
against me
david said look i had a friend i was
close with a friend i trusted a friend i
shared meals with
but now they're going the opposite of me
right they're not going with me they're
going against me
so if you flip that we'd have trust we'd
have
sharing we'd have closeness we'd have
going in the same direction
and there are dozens of verses that
provide a context
for for what friendship is proverbs 17
17
proverbs 18 24 james 4 4 and there's so
many more
and if you study them all you'd come up
with a base definition of friendship
that would be
sounding much like this take a look
friendship is a trust filled love
motivated oneness
that arises as two people move together
towards a mutual goal you know in c.s
lewis's book the four loves
he differentiates between erotic love
and friendship love by talking about how
the greeks use more than one word for
love
he says you know when they talked about
lovers you know the greeks would say
that's eros
like erotic love when the greeks talked
about friendship love
that was filos like philadelphia the
city of brotherly love
and you know that's one way you know to
look at it but what helped me
is when i read cs lewis's book is how he
positioned those loves
he said in erotic love it's two people
looking right at
each other face to face eye to eye in
philly love it's two people standing
side by side shoulder to shoulder
looking at something else something that
they have
in common that's the difference between
erotic love and friendship love
for example if you like war movies you
can see it nearly every war
film you know the early scenes are all
about how one soldier comes from the
city another
from the farm and when they meet in boot
camp like they kind of hate each other
because they're like so very different
and in the early scenes of war films
there'll be this fight between these two
or there'll be some kind of tension that
will develop but then as the film moves
to battle
and their commander says hey we gotta
take pork chop hill you know or we gotta
sink that battleship
what happens well the relationship
between the city boy
and the country bumpkin between these
two very different people
it turns to what to friendship
why because they developed a trust and a
concern for each other as they pursued a
common goal
they rescued each other from tight spots
right they lost teeth and fingers for
each other someone's leg got shot and
you know these movies poorly acted but
like great entertainment
the christian construct is similar
god intended marriage to grow
out of friendship he intended philos to
be the first stage
that's friendship and eros this deep eye
to i love
to grow out of that friendship so
definitionally friendship it's a trust
filled
love motivated oneness that arises as
two people move together towards a
mutual goal
and in a marriage that is outside of
christ you know where two people don't
know jesus
and sure they can be happy sure they can
be in harmony
sure they can pursue goals together and
grow together but what differentiates
a christian marriage from any other is
the goal
that they pursue and this goal is the
huge advantage to every christian
husband and wife who grasp it who
understands it
to not know the goal to not understand
how it serves your marriage
would be like getting into a tesla and
not knowing about the ludicrous gear
or like getting into the millennium
falcon and not knowing about hyperdrive
let me switch analogies it's like eating
vanilla ice cream and not knowing about
hot fudge
or like watching a 3d film without
knowing about the special glasses
i mean the movie's kind of okay i mean
you can kind of get the gist of it but
boy you put those little paper plastic
glasses on and wow
it's incredible and this is how it is in
a christian marriage
because the mutual goal in a christian
marriage
is far different than the mutual goal in
a marriage outside
of christ what is that goal well god
spells it out for the husband but it's
actually the goal for both husband and
wife
god says husbands love your wives
just as christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her
to make her holy cleansing her by the
washing of water through the word
and to present her to himself as a
radiant church
without stain or wrinkle or blemish
and as i shared last week jesus's job
with the church is to make her holy so
that she can be presented to the throne
of god
completely radiant and holy so this is
the goal in a christian
marriage each person looks at the other
to see
what stunning beautiful amazing thing
that god is bringing about in that
person's life
it's like this most people who are
getting married
they're looking for a finished product
you know like a statue when according to
god
they shouldn't be looking for a statue
they should be looking for a block of
marble
right so that each person looks at the
block and sees the statue
that could be one day shifting metaphors
they look at the caterpillar and they
see the butterfly
that will one day metamorph so the goal
of each spouse
is to look at their partner and say well
i see
beyond your flaws and weaknesses i see
beyond your imperfections and
dependencies
i see who you are gonna be
i see a you that's absolutely ravishing
i see burst of glory flashes of
immortality
i see your potential i see the person
that god is calling you
to become and i want to be a part of
that and i'm hopeful
that you want to be a part of that
sculpting process that brings out that
in me too
see together in this christian marriage
you're going to work to present
each other before the throne without
blemish
let me give you a few ways to think of
it i'm visiting this university in
riverside california you know where
the los angeles smog is like simply
smothering
we we really have no sense of it here in
the beauty of indiana
and neither did the student i met at the
school he'd been on campus
for an entire semester and the day i
visited
the strong santa ana winds came through
that riverside valley and just
completely
blew out the smog when this college kid
came out of his dorm
he was absolutely floored because right
in front of him
were huge mountains he'd been there for
months
and never knew they were there
but for a few hours that day the glory
and the majesty of mountains soaring ten
thousand feet in height
were stunningly visible and in just a
few hours
the winds died down and the cruddy smog
hid the mountains once
again friends this is marriage it's any
christian relationship really
some days it's smoggy you can't see very
far and as time goes by a wind whips up
and you get a glimpse
of the peak you see the snow at the top
glimmering in the bright noonday sun
and it takes your breath away and then
the next thing you know
the smog is back getting to know a
christian a christ follower it's like
that
every once in a while you get a glimpse
of the glorious
right the gorgeous the radiant peak of
perfection you see
who this person is becoming you get a
vision of who they would be if they
weren't shackled by the smog of sin and
flaws
and it inspires you to want to be a part
of the process of helping that person
get there
as fast as possible that's the way a
christian relationship should be
and one more way to think about this a
few years ago i'm walking through
carepoint academy
and i noticed that the girls in one of
the classes they'd shanghaied this
little boy to play the groom
in their little make-believe wedding he
had a look on his face that i'd seen
in many real-life weddings i looked from
the groom that said oh my goodness how
in the world did i get here there's a
bit of truth in that really for all
couples who stand at the altar
i mean you don't dress in wedding
clothes every day right you don't live
in the grandeur of formality not even
the most
proper couples in our community walk
around in a tux or a wedding gown
today you know tuxes and really many
dresses are rented
which means you're just playing dress-up
really
and it is there in an outfit that you're
really never going to wear again
that you're proclaiming vows before god
that basically say
someday 70 80 years from now when we
exit this stage called earth
we will stand before your throne and our
souls and our character will be without
spot or blemish
and when you utter that vow you're about
as ready for that day as those
five-year-olds play playing dress up
you're not there yet you're a major work
in progress but one day
god will look at you and they'll look at
your spouse and he'll say
well done my good and faithful servants
well done over the years you lifted each
other up to me
you sacrificed for each other's good you
held each other up in prayer
you confronted each other in love and
you worked for the good of each other
you cared and you hugged and you
continually pushed each other towards me
now look at you you are radiant you are
spotless you are perfect
and in the end two christians husband
and wife
will stand before the altar with joy and
satisfaction because they know
they've been the sculptor's tool to
bring about the perfection
in their spouse's life that's the goal
that's what they're really after
that's why i say that definitionally
that friendship
is the purpose of marriage and that it
is a trust feel love motivated oneness
that arises as two people move
towards that mutual goal romance fun
travel
houses and all those other things
they're just some results they're the
desert
but they're not the main course they're
not the thing that your marriage really
runs on
you are committed to each other's
holiness
to their beauty to their greatness to
their perfection and that's your job
if the goal is any lower than that well
you're just playing dress-up
you're not really doing marriage
friendship
is the purpose and the goal is holiness
so how do we make this practical well
let me give you a couple
practical applications for those of you
who are not yet married
for those of you single and let me give
you a couple for those of you who have
already been into this marriage
relationship
the first practical thought for those of
you who are not yet married is to start
with friendship you know in a practical
sense that really means to scrap your
current plan for finding a spouse
you see the current game plan at least
for most single men most single women is
that when you walk into a room or a
restaurant or a party it's like to scan
that room for possibilities right
you walk in that room you look around
right and you see like 30 people the
opposite sex and in seconds what do you
do
you rule out like 27 of them boom bam
they're gone
out right why well they don't have the
right look
they're too short too tall too fat too
thin too little hair too much hair
too cool not cool enough blonde not
blonde and in seconds
you've just done a laser scan of the
potential spouses
and knocked out 90 and frankly i'm
showing my age here because
this doesn't even happen in a room or a
party anymore does it right
it happens on your phone swipe left
swipe left swipe left left left flat
flat five i mean some of you don't you
don't even give those photos like a
second of your time
swipe side swipes white swipe right and
ooh swipe right
right right whether you're in a room or
on an app
you've literally knocked out all but
three and so you muster some courage
and you give one a shot and if they're
willing maybe they meet you and they go
out with you
but the challenge here is that you
started with romance
with eros with physical attraction i'm
talking about christians here not those
of you who just jump into bed with each
other right i'm talking about christians
who don't think they should start with
sex
but you've still started with eros
because you're facing one another like
this
and what you've done is to rule out all
the people in the room or on the app
who could be incredible spouses for you
because they could have become
your best friend but nope you've ruled
them all out
they're literally left out left left
left left right and you've narrowed down
the group
your choice to only those who excite the
eye
and to whom you think you could have
this kind of romantic swipe right
rush for now certainly you might find a
friend in that group
but it is very possible probable even
that you've ruled out left out your best
spouse material
so change that approach start with
friendship and what i mean
is to start finding out does this person
have common values common vision common
passions
is this person looking for the same goal
are they surface level or do they have
any depth to them
if you must swipe left then swipe left
on everyone who couldn't provide you
with friendship swipe left on those who
don't share your values
swipe left on those who don't share your
goals swipe left on those who don't
match your passion
swipe right on those who you know could
understand you
swipe right on those you you could be
vulnerable with
those are the marriage possibilities
because you start
with friendship not with a hookup you
start
with friendship not romance you start
with friendship
second practical application for
christian singles number two when you
look for a spouse
look only at christians if you're a
christian
and the person you want to marry is not
a christian by definition you
cannot fully pursue the goal
nor can you live in the definition of
marital friendship it's impossible
if christ is the most important part of
your life and your spouse says well you
know i don't care if you're religious or
not go to church as much as you want
i just sleep in and do some yard work
listen
if that's what you're considering stop
they will never be able to understand
you they might be a good lover
they might be amazingly attractive but
you can't ever
expect them to fully understand you or
bring out the best in you
they can't and if you disagree with me
just find one or two christians who've
tried it and ask them how that worked
out
ask them how the plan of winning their
spouse to christ worked out
ask them how the plan of hoping their
spouse would become the follower that
they are
worked grab a coffee and ask
but bring some tissue because there's
going to be some tears because it
doesn't work out
you know why because if your spouse
doesn't understand christ
your spouse does not understand you
period all right this next one's for
both singles and
those of us who are already married here
it is number three guard your heart
against friendships with the opposite
sex
really you see friendship is the
playground
where you figure out who you might have
a future with
we've already laid the groundwork that
you start with friendship
we've just told all the singles to do
that so so when you start to develop a
friendship with someone of the opposite
sex
and you start to go deeper and
understand them and they start to
understand you
what that means biblically is that you
are dating yeah dating i know you're
like well ray what do you mean
i'm dating i mean we've not gone out to
eat i've never sat down with this person
at a restaurant we've not looked into
each other's eyes through a candle flame
we're not dating that's crazy no
you are and it isn't crazy
when you follow the bible's plan to
establish a friendship first
when you start to become vulnerable and
open your heart to a friend like that
you're doing what you're supposed to do
if you're pursuing marriage that's the
first step towards marriage
now i'm not talking about friendships
between two men two women that's fine
but
there are great friendships like that in
the scriptures but they're not a step to
marriage
there's no biblical pattern for that it
doesn't exist and really this is a
message about christian marriage
and the point here is that the two sexes
that god created to fit together
as two polarities to form one flesh
when you've got male and female getting
together in friendship
that step to friendship is the first
step to marriage to the goal
in the beginning when adam wasn't
sinning you know when he had this
perfect relationship with god even
though he was perfect he was lonely
and god created eve to complete him
that means that a friendship across the
gender line
has a profound and mysterious completion
component
to it where you realize you're in the
presence of a friend
but you're also in the presence of
something
unlike you right you're in the presence
of someone
who is different and you're vulnerable
to them
when they look at your problems and your
sin and they say well i understand
you'll find that fulfills and completes
you in a way
that someone of the same gender could
never fulfill and complete you
you're on your way towards marriage when
you've got a really deep relationship
with someone of the opposite sex
and you're dating and what that means is
you better be careful
deeply careful because when you get
someone
that vulnerable and yet you're not
starting to make a
social commitment to that person you're
starting
to use them now you don't think that's
true
you say well ray i got one of those
relationships and that person doesn't
make me feel used
make sure talk to that person watch out
because
you're dating and you just don't realize
it you're dating the way that god says
and you've just
not thought you were all right this
one's for those of you who are
already married it's number four deepen
your friendship with your spouse open up
talk share share how you're feeling you
know one of the things i prize most in
my marriage is how lisa does this
i never have to wonder what lisa's
thinking because she reveals herself to
me
her hopes her fears her dreams her heart
is all laid open
and if you don't have that sit down with
your spouse and start working toward it
be honest with them your spouse will
probably do the same thing back you know
it's really rare for one person to say
well look i've been totally open
and vulnerable with you and the other
person says well good but i ain't doing
that with you
right it rarely happens like that
typically when one person opens up
the other follows and what you want the
thing that's really romantic
the thing that makes the marriage heaven
itself is to have someone look
all the way into you and say i see the
imperfections
but what i'm focused on is not those
flaws but who you're becoming
i see your passions i see the you that's
going before the throne one day
and i'm gonna walk with you towards it
every step
when you have that kind of vulnerability
and understanding and acceptance
even in the best marriage it's only
episodic
but you can sense the life of heaven
and you know this is what heaven's gonna
be like all right
one more for married couples because
your spouse
is only going to reach perfection in
heaven this means here's number five
be patient with your spouse's
imperfections
you see your spouse isn't going to be
perfect this side of heaven and neither
will you
and so realize that due to this you're
going to constantly
find yourself falling in and out
of like notice i didn't say in and out
of love
don't say that you've fallen out of love
love
is a commitment to the perfection of
your spouse one day love is a commitment
like is a feeling and because life is a
feeling
you won't always like your spouse and
they won't always like you
that perfect you it hasn't yet arrived
you think of it like those old steel
furnaces you know that they use to
purify metal
when they put that raw material in the
furnace to get that pure silver or that
pure gold
there's a lot of impurities that must be
burned off
they call that dross the dross burns
away
the real valuable metal is what's
purified
and so just like in a real furnace
you're going to see some sparks in your
marriage and they ain't talking about
the
like bedroom romance sparks i'm talking
about when sparks fly
wrestling wing kind of stuff right and
when you get your eye
off the goal and you get focused on the
dross the
impurities the flaws the weaknesses it's
really easy then to be impatient and
discouraged
but don't be god is using you as a
spouse
to bring about the glory of another
person your spouse
and your spouse is doing that for you
too both of you want that dross to go
and here's the beauty of those times in
a marriage of outside christ you know
where people aren't concerned with the
end goal when they don't
see all the straws in each other the
natural normal thing
that people do when they see all these
imperfections and flaws in their spouse
is to wish they had somebody else
someone better
what's fantastic about a christian
marriage is that
they too wish they had someone better
but the person they envision that's
better is the one that they're married
to
you want perfection from your spouse and
your spouse wants perfection from you
but not like a trade-in for a new model
no
you don't want someone else you want
them and as you mature in christ you
start to echo
what the apostle paul told that church
in philippi this is philippians 1
6. he said i'm confident of this that he
who began a good work in you
is going to carry it on to completion
until that day of christ jesus
how could paul say this to a church that
he'd never met in person
well he can say it because he knows that
if they're followers of jesus christ
they are going to be perfected one day
that's the goal so you can expect to
fall in and out of like
and yet your commitment to that person
is going to grow that love for them is
going to grow
even when you don't like them because
what you see when you don't like them
is the imperfection the draws the flaws
and you
want to get rid of that because you want
that perfect person
the good news is that's what jesus wants
to he's that ultimate friend
if you take what you learn from how
jesus loves you even when you're not so
lovable
if you take what you learn from how
jesus forgives you even when you do the
same thing over and over again
if you take what you learn from how
jesus relates to you
and you apply that to your marriage your
marriage
will soar and friend if you don't know
christ you can come to know him right
now
tell him to forgive you for all the
dross for the flaws
for the sin in your life and then ask
him to bring about your purity and to
put his spirit in you
he will you know and he can would you
ask him right now
let's pray together let's pray all
together god thank you
for an opportunity to to think about our
marriages
and god if there's somebody here that's
never had a relationship with you never
been connected to you
right now in the privacy of their heart
would you help them to say jesus forgive
me
would you pray that right now just say
jesus forgive me i got some dross i've
got some sin
i haven't been following you come into
my life
save me would you just pray that jesus
forgive me
come into my life and save me
father i thank you for every single
person that prayed that prayer
and i thank you for every person that's
watching right now
that's in a marriage right god i ask
that you would bless their marriage
as they put these principles into place
bring about your blessing and god i pray
for those that are single right now
hoping for that day when you will lead
them to the right partner
god help them to pursue it through
friendship and god i pray for those who
you've blessed with the gift of
singleness
god provide to them all that a spouse
might provide
through your presence in their lives and
god we bring all of these things to you
in the name of your son jesus christ
amen
hey if you've just prayed that prayer
would you please let me know
but prayed it in the feed you know
prayed it and just put it in the feeder
just shoot me an email at heyrey
the pointchurch.net i'd love to
celebrate with you and help you
take your next step you know and
speaking of steps this
coming sunday september 13th is the 15th
anniversary of the point church and i'm
so excited to celebrate it with you in
fact you've got two choices
when it comes to celebrating you can
celebrate it right here online
or you can join us in person at our bass
road campus
and of course you can expect we're gonna
have all the necessary precautions in
place for you and for all the guests
that you invite to attend with you
masks aren't required but if you prefer
to wear a mask and worship only with
those who are wearing masks we're going
to have a closed circuit worship
experience
for you in the gathering area our kids
ministries got a few changes for drop
off and pick up
and if your children have attended
before please check your email for
instructions
if your children are new simply email
amy.spencer at thepointchurch.net
and she'll provide you with all that you
need hey it's going to be a great
celebration and whether you choose to
attend online
or in person i'm so excited to share
this momentous
occasion with you here's deanna with
some details
thank you ray so much the ring series
has been an amazing series wouldn't you
agree
i always find something very applicable
to my life
and to my like here and now so yes and
you know if you feel the same way go
ahead and give an
a men in that chat box right
now we've been so blessed to hear the
word
um to be able to worship through the
word through song
and it's been so so lovely and now we
get to
worship through giving now if you're
still new with us
just hang tight for me as we enter into
this time
we actually do all of this for you so
think of this time as an opportunity for
us to pick up the tab
on our dinner date night together okay
just hang tight for me now for those of
you who call the point church your home
and
who are living into the mission of
helping people find and follow jesus
thank you thank you for giving
faithfully
you never let distance stop you you
uh you never let time stop you you give
no matter what thank you so much and
we're still able to have an
impact on our community because of your
gifts now if you'd like to start giving
or even to continue giving we have so
many options for you
online at the point church.net
give there you will be able to give by
credit or debit card
you can even use our text to give option
just send over your favorite emoji
to the number below and boom it'll walk
you through
a couple minutes of setup once you're
set up it's legit
20 seconds to give it's pretty
incredible
also feel free to stop by the points
campus on bass road
give your gift in person we have folks
here monday through friday
9 a.m to 5 p.m you can totally do the
chicken wing corona greeting thing
and put your mask on and we'll share
mass smile with you as well okay
there's also a super clean kiosk in the
lobby if you'd like to use
that route as well and again thank you
thank you thank you thank you thank you
for giving so
faithfully and uh thank you
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tell us you're new at the
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connect or just tell us in that chat box
okay
finally september 13th
birthday sunday celebrate with us in
person or
online invite invite invite invite
literally this is going down
next week y'all i am so excited and i
think that's it for today we're done
thank you for sharing time with us we
love you
see you back here next time bye
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